Just received my new flir E4 with software 2.11. Without downgrading I followed the fubar procedure here http://fubar.gr/hacking-the-flir-e4/ substituting the script pack files FLIR_E4_2.11.0_hack from 2lps here https://www.eevblog.com/forum/thermal-imaging/flir-e4-thermal-imaging-camera-teardown/msg921880/#msg921880
It worked great and I have full resolution and thermal noise removed and lots more menu options and features. I have not detected any issues. All menu features seem to be there and working. I especially like the 3 spots measurement feature.
Thank you very much to fubar and 2lps and to everyone else involved in setting up the scripts and files needed and working out the various improvements.
Changes were done on windows 7 64bit virtual machine on Virtualbox running on macosx hardware. Drivers were fine on windows 7 64bit. Only trick was trying to get Virtualbox to own the flir USB devices as macosx kept trying to mount the USB volume.
Notes for people running a similar virtualbox set up:
– connect the flir to the computer so Virtualbox can see that it exists, then go into the virtual machine settings to tell the virtual machine to own the device. This does not work instantly – you are just configuring it. Then try and unmount the drive in macosx and unplug the flir.
– I think I shut down windows at this point and quit Virtualbox. Might not be needed.
– Start Virtualbox and boot the windows virtual machine
– plug in the flir and windows should see it and install drivers
– once you go through the procedure to change to RNDIS mode, it is a different USB device so you will have to go through a similar procedure (adding the new device to the virtual machine config) to get Virtualbox and the windows virtual machine to own it. Less difficult this time because macosx is not trying to mount a USB drive.
Cheers,
Anthony
I received an E4 (obviously non wifi) with firmware 2.11 over the weekend and had a similar experience as Anthony here. Only difference is I used an old computer running Windows XP (non virtualized) to do the install. The only minor issue I had was after first switching the E4 to RNDIS mode, when I first turned it on it got hung trying to pick up an IP address. The XP command line interface completely locked up to where I couldn't even force quit out of it (this has happened on other occasions, don't think it was specifically because of the Flir). After around 10 minutes I finally decided to turn the E4 off and unplug the USB cable from it, and as soon as I did networking and the CLI became responsive again. After plugging the E4 back in I was able to continue on with the guide. All in all it only took about 30 minutes (even with the wasted 10 minutes of being hung up) and I have not had any issues with the Flir since (I did get 1 error on the Flir around an hour after completing the upgrade, but have seen others mention receiving the same error, and have not had it since).
Thanks to all who figured all this out.
Edit: Wanted to add that the message from this thread where the FLIR_E4_2.11.0_hack file is supposed to be located (
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/thermal-imaging/flir-e4-thermal-imaging-camera-teardown/msg921880/#msg921880) seems to have been deleted. Sorry, I don't remember where exactly I got the FLIR_E4_2.11.0_hack file from, but its definitely out there somewhere.